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- China successfully managed multiple SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks using targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), but their overall effectiveness hasn't been systematically evaluated.
- Implementing strategies like case isolation, contact tracing, community lockdowns, and mobility restrictions may control outbreaks without needing to resort to city-wide lockdowns, and mass testing can enhance containment efforts.
- Quick and effective containment strategies early in the pandemic could reduce the overall impact of the disease and prove to be a cost-effective public health approach.
Article Abstract
What Is Already Known About This Topic?: China has repeatedly contained multiple severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreaks through a comprehensive set of targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). However, the effectiveness of such NPIs has not been systematically assessed.
What Is Added By This Report?: A multilayer deployment of case isolation, contact tracing, targeted community lockdowns, and mobility restrictions could potentially contain outbreaks caused by the SARS-CoV-2 ancestral strain, without the requirement of city-wide lockdowns. Mass testing could further aid in the efficacy and speed of containment.
What Are The Implications For Public Health Practice?: Pursuing containment in a timely fashion at the beginning of the pandemic, before the virus had the opportunity to spread and undergo extensive adaptive evolution, could help in averting an overall pandemic disease burden and be socioeconomically cost-effective.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10061773 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.46234/ccdcw2023.020 | DOI Listing |
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